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[littlecousin]

[Nita has been uncharacteristically absent from, well, everything lately, because she's been curled up on the couch having an identity crisis. But now she's on the network! She looks fine, if disgruntled. Unusually for her, she's posting from a console cafe, in Fire Sector if the view behind her is anything to go by.]

Uh. Can someone come get me? I can't navigate on the ground.

[Yeah, she managed to wander, on foot, as far from her apartment as it's possible to be and still be in Keeliai, and she's finally given up on finding her own way home because everything looks the same. Good job, Nita.]

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[littlecousin]

It's so weird not being able to just...go up.

[She's always been able to fly, and before that, she lived underwater where swimming in any direction is normal. Nita's literally never had to think two-dimensionally.

Even as a mere mortal, she's in excellent physical shape, and despite her long afternoon, she has no problem keeping up--or at least no problem she's willing to show.]

...My wings fell off, Bucky.

[She is not okay.]

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[beganwithamask]

[He's not one to make fun when there are real adjustments to be made. It's a bit like Toro and feeling heat now. He doesn't know that the stove is hot and will burn his hand just because it never has for him before, and so he won't prod too hard about Nita's sudden need to think two-dimensionally.] Yeah, I'd imagine so.

[That startles him, though, and he looks at her, eyes gone a little wide with surprise and concern.] They what? That's- Ah, hell.

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[littlecousin]

It's happened to Namor before, so I always knew it was a risk, but...

[She trails off. Just the wings she probably could have handled, but combined with losing her Atlantean heritage, she's close to her breaking point.]

...my gills closed, too.

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[beganwithamask]

[It's worse than he'd originally thought it might be, from the sound of it. First Toro burning himself, then Steve being skinny and sickly, now Nita unable to breathe water and with parts of her falling off... Criminey.

He just throws a companionable arm around her shoulders again and gives her a light squeeze of support, because hey, she's Namor's family so she's practically an Invader.] Hey. We're gonna fix this. All of it. How'd it happen to Namor? What'd he do about it?

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[littlecousin]

[She was an actual Invader for about five minutes in Berlin once! Cap, Namor, Jim, and Jackie were there, Toro was dead at the time, and Bucky was growing mold in the back of a Soviet fridge somewhere, so it totally counted as quorum.

Nita leans into Bucky, because unlike Namor, she is not a bipedal porcupine.]

This time? He was exposed to an anti-mutagenic agent. They still haven't grown back.

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[beganwithamask]

[The juniors miss all the cool Invaders meetings.

Bucky sighs hearing that, because damn, that's not exactly optimistic news.]

We will fix this. [His tone is firm, determined, but then he takes up a lighter tone, looking down to give her a patented Bucky Smile.] I kind of have a knack for saving everybody when the chips are down. Don't worry.